What A Body Moves Through
2020 Curatorial Prize Exhibition: What A Body Moves Through
Tyler Clarke, Bryson Rand, Lindley Warren Mickunas
curated by June T Sanders
May 6–June 26, 2021
Panel discussion: June 9th at 5:00 PM PDT
What A Body Moves Through features recent photographic work by three emerging artists: Tyler Clarke, Bryson Rand, and Lindley Warren Mickunas. These images address and expand upon contemporary notions of the body: its ability to channel social and political histories, expand itself through contexts and vessels, and ultimately, challenge our ideas of sexual and gendered realities. The combined work of these three artists is heavy, playful, curious, and confrontational—playing with traditional “straight” black-and-white photographic styles, and elaborating on contemporary visuals of queerness, femininity, and moments of sexual tension. It lives somewhere between document and imagined worlds, allowing for nuance, the ephemeral, and reflections on the ways that we have, can, and will move through our natural and cultural landscapes.
June T Sanders is an artist, writer, educator, and curator from south central Washington state. She lives there still. She is currently a full time assistant professor with the digital technology & culture program at Washington State University. Her work is about gender, dirt, expansions, home.
Tyler Clarke is a photographer living in their hometown of Lynbrook, Long island. Their work reflects on gender through awkwardness; queer phenomena; escapism in America; the suburban basement. In 2019, Tyler received a BFA in photography and video from the School of Visual Arts.
Bryson Rand was born in Phoenix, AZ in 1982 as the son of an Air Force pilot and spent his childhood living around the world on Air Force bases. Bryson attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2019, and received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2015, a Masters in Art Education from the School of Visual Arts in 2009, and a BFA from University of Colorado in 2004. He has had solo exhibitions at La MaMa Galleria and Zeit Contemporary, and exhibited in group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Bryson’s work is held in the collections of the Leslie Lohman Museum, Oz Art, and numerous private collections. He has published three monographs: Some Small Fever (2017) and The Origins of Color (2018), and Waters (2017). Bryson’s work has been included in publications such as Der Greif, Dear Dave, Matte Magazine, VICE, and NEWSPAPER, and has been featured on ArtForum.com. Bryson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College and lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Ryan and their dog, Frankie.
Lindley Warren Mickunas is a photographer and the founder of The Reservoir, a collective editorial project on the politics of image-making. Lindley is a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Photography and an MFA Photography candidate at Columbia College Chicago. She was named a 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up, published in FotoFilmic’s JRNL 2 edited by STANLEY/BARKER, and exhibited by Der Greif at Berlin Photo Week.